#media propaganda

[odinsblog]

Hamas ≠ Palestine

👉🏿 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/11/the-occupation-of-water/

👉🏿 https://www.tumblr.com/odinsblog/730635185110073344

[hozukitofu]

Every time I view the tributes as "evil" or "annoying" or "stuck up" I have to physically chant THAT'S WHAT THE CAPITOL WANTS YOU TO THINK. We watch and consume media, and we are all easily suggestible to depictions and hidden agenda of the producers - I'm a kpoppie so I've seen my fill of reality shows and evil mnet editing, how someone can have their actions, words and expressions twisted into a narrative that isn't true. Media at the scale of the Games are not designed to tell the truth - that largely marginalised kids are ritually massacred to scare the districts from thinking about rebellion. The broadcasted Games are selling the deaths almost at an unreal quality, almost like it's not REALLY happening - and the emotional distance that the Capitol citizens are able to afford/and be removed from the brutality can pretend that it's not really there and more importantly, not THEIR kids. This is just a silly little show and these kids are only characters playing a role, but ooh sometimes we can get interactive and influence their odds. How fun! How exciting! And we in the Capitol get to do this Every Year? Give us drama and twists, different arenas and costumes every year so we can keep consuming.

It's so easy to call literal kids EVIL or SELFISH and INHUMANE. Anyone would be if they've been publicly announced to fight to the DEATH and having to survive 23 other people actively TRYING to murder them. Everything is RIGGED by the game makers and sponsors - create an environment that is so toxic that people have to be the worst versions of themselves to survive - for funsies. For shits and giggles. For laughs, for bets. Doesn't matter if the chosen tribute win, but they have to be entertaining. SICKENING.

So the next time you catch yourself slipping into Capitol propaganda, thinking about how kids are evil and murderous and annoying, also consider the additional fact that they HAVE TO BE, and also just because a teenager is annoying doesn't mean they should DIE FOR IT. I know we're all disdainful of kids and think they're not fully formed humans, and sometimes they can look like they're older than they are, but that doesn't excuse TELEVISED demonisation of certain actions. Kids who are ruthless so they can go home are just trying to play a game rigged against their LIVES. I think all of the tributes can do whatever tf they want, I support tribute rights AND wrongs. They're ANNOYING and I want them to LIVE. Two statements that can and should coexist

[madame-helen]

Gender parity?

[redshift-13]

"Journalists reporting on the Israeli assault on Gaza for The New York Times have been directed to limit the use of the word "genocide", an internal memo shows.

News site The Intercept reported on Monday that it had acquired a copy of the memo, which tells journalists to reserve the name "Palestine" for "very rare cases".

The document "offers guidance about some terms and other issues we have grappled with since the start of the conflict in October".

A newsroom source quoted by The Intercept said the memo was the "kind of thing that looks professional and logical if you have no knowledge of the historical context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict".

"But if you do know, it will be clear how apologetic it is to Israel," the source said."

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More at the link.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

To-Day. Split Screen. :::

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Just think about it! Both Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan are older than Biden. And both are out on tour. Don't get sucked in to the media narrative.

[strawberryqueen00]

I’m so tired holy shit

[jackoshadows]

[andnowanowl]

I remember seeing clips of Walter Cronkite when I was a kid and I remember thinking, "Wow, this guy actually talks about stuff that's happening in places other than America!" Because by the time I started seeing the news in 2000, it was just talking heads doing opinion pieces and there, on the bottom, in tiny script that was fleeing to the side at a million miles an hour, was the actual relevant news. In a nation that sucks ass at reading to begin with. They kept us ignorant as a feature, not a bug. And not just Palestine, but the DRC, Armenia, Sudan. The media has been complicit in those genocides from the get-go by not reporting on them the way they should have been.

[inde-60]

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[stil-lindigo]

an ex-zionist jewish man recently went a bit viral on tiktok for sharing exactly how he sees zionism tie israel to the jewish identity and his personal experience with breaking away from it - I think it’s a really great watch.

He also made a follow up talking specifically about how he learned to humanise Palestinians, and a really integral part of it was his school, which would often bring in Palestinian speakers who’d share their perspective (here’s a link to it).

[gwiazdaerydanu]

This is How it Works

[chunmeista-thoughts]

Another way all of these struggles are connected, is the way media decides to automatically exonerate the perpetrators.

It is clear as day, how corporate US media decides to be complicit in the normalization of violence by deciding how it wants to cover things. The bias is in the headlines, and these are just two specific examples.

There is no way that these companies should be getting away with this. There needs to be groups of people to hold a fire to them. If nothing is done, fascists will continue to openly define how events are perceived by the general public in media.

[jackoshadows]

Old interview still relevant today about what discourse is allowed in mainstream media and how censorship is enforced simply by instilling from a very young age the idea of what is and is not acceptable to talk about and the dire consequences if one steps out of line.